On Feb 25, 2:41 pm, Paul Waldo <p...@waldoware.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am brand new to Django, so forgive me if my questions are naive :-) > > I have read the tutorials and I'm starting my first learning > application. This is a small time-tracking application. As you can > imagine, the majority of the application is basic CRUD data entry. The > other significant part is that I want to automatically create reports on > a regular basis and email them. I have two questions: > > * The Admin application is great for my CRUD functionality; Django does > a really fine job of creating this interface automatically. > Unfortunately, using the Admin app. for data entry does not provide a > seamless experience; the URLs are different, the look and feel is > different, and the Admin is much more polished than my hand-crafted > pages :-). Do people use the Admin for regular users, or do they > duplicate all that CRUD in their own pages? Is there a way to make the > Application/Admin more seamless?
There are various options, depending on what sort of users you are catering for: * Extend the admin using the built-in hooks, eg using a custom form for your model. Django renders this in exactly the same way as any other admin form. * Write your own views but inherit from the admin templates, to get their look and feel. This is good if you have trusted users, but need a bit more functionality than the admin can provide. * Use the CRUD generic views. Best for regular users. > * Is there a standard model for running automated tasks? I was thinking > about a cron task that uses lynx or curl to call a URL that performs the > task, but that gets kind of ugly. Is there a better way to do this? Ugly is right. Use cron by all means, but don't run the process via the webserver. Instead, create a custom manage.py command within your app, and get cron to call that. See the (unfortunately very basic) documentation here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-management-commands/ -- DR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
